MCSWEENEY’S: JAMES JOYCE ORDERS A SHAMROCK SHAKE

MCSWEENEY’S: JAMES JOYCE ORDERS A SHAMROCK SHAKE

MCSWEENEY'S: James Joyce Orders a Shamrock Shake.

“Dublin moans ‘neath the merciless weight of noontide hunger, a gnawing in the bellies of man, a thirst burning in their barren gullets, while I, alone, must navigate the further indignity of an ill-scheduled 1 PM meeting, looming before me like the trained bow of Artemis.”